Improved washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY O. MOODY, OF FULTON, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, HENRY C. MooDY, of Fulton, Oswego county, State ot` New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vashing-Machines; and Ido hereby declare the following to be an exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part ot' this specification.

The nature ot' my invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination ot' an adjustable rubber or press-board and friction-rollers operating in guides or grooves in the sides of a wash-board.

Figure l represents a side elevation, Fig. 2 a sectional view, and Fig. 3 an end View, ot' the machine.

A represents a common wash-board with its rollers O. At the sides are long grooves D, in which the friction-rollers E operate.

An adjustable ribbed pressboard or rubber, F, operates on an axis in the arms or levers G G. The front ends of the levers G are curved and have a friction-roller, E, attached on the inside. These rollers work in the slot or grooves D back and forward as the levers G are worked by the operator. The clothes rest-ing upon the rollers C are rubbed by the rubber F as the levers are operated, the rubber F adjusting and moving according to the thickness of the clothes heilig Washed.

The combination of the levers G with the adjustable rubber F operates on the lever principle, the fulcrum being at the friction-rollers E, the resistance at the adjustable rubber F, and the motive power at `the cross-piece or handle H of the upper ends ot' the levers G, by which means the power of the levers is added to the rubber.

That Iclaim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement, construction, and combination of the levers G, the self-adjustable rubber F, the side rollers, E, and guides D, as herein described, and for thepurposes set forth.

HENRY C. MOODY.

Vitnesses:

J. FRANKLIN REIGAR'JJ, J onN S. HoLLrNGsHnAD. 

